Windows user, wanna try Linux? Checklist.

Are you a Windows user who has heard of Linux and is considering trying this new operating system? Very good. You have made a very wise decision. Not the test itself, although it may be a pleasant experience, but the very fact that you have opened up your mind to new possibilities. That in itself is worth its weight in gold.

But before you do anything, let me dampen your mojo a little. Your Linux experience will be inversely proportional to your expectations, as well as your level of preparedness. So, if you want to test Linux, maybe even move to it one day, you should make sure you approach the adventure with a solid dose of soberness and reality. To wit, this article.

This is one of the most sensible articles on this topic that I have seen and I agree with the writer's concept.

Most people buy computers to perform tasks. They are not going to delve deeply into the inner workings of the system. They just want to read their emails, surf the web, write documents, play games, and do their jobs. If they switched off their computers and went to bed, and while they were asleep their OS was changed from Windows to Linux, and when they turned them on again, they could still do these things they probably would not care or object.

Under the present state of the art, this cannot be done.It's not hard to make a Linux desktop look and feel like a Windows desktop. But if they could not do what they had been doing, the howls of protest would drown out a rock concert.

Linus won't survive long if it does not get a phone. What people used to have to use a computer for was summed up like this:

Most people buy computers to perform tasks. They are not going to delve deeply into the inner workings of the system. They just want to read their emails, surf the web, write documents, play games, and do their jobs. If they switched off their computers and went to bed, and while they were asleep their OS was changed from Windows to Linux, and when they turned them on again, they could still do these things they probably would not care or object.

Most people buy computers to perform tasks. They are not going to delve deeply into the inner workings of the system. They just want to read their emails, surf the web, write documents, play games, and do their jobs.

If this is true (and I think it is largely) then all they need is a tablet of some sort. And it seems a lot of people have realised this, which is probably why desktop d and laptop sales are dropping. Just my 2 pennyworth....